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Conducted by Peter Eötvös, the tunes played (if I’m correct): Penis Dimension, Dupree’s Paradise, The Perfect Stranger. The concert is said to be broadcasted on the 21st of December on France Musique radio.

By the way, the TV channel France 3 is a subsidiary of France Télévisions and FR3 is its former name.
The Maison de Radio France is a concert hall which belongs to Radio France of the same company France Télévisions.

Speaker: “The marriage of rock and classical music. It’s at the Présences festival at the Maison de Radio France. It begins tonight, and during 3 days, the

contemporary music is paving new ways with, for instance, variations around the work of a musician of legend, Frank Zappa, interpreted by 3 orchestras. A

news report by Pierre-Yves Salique with Nedim Loncarevic.”
(The Perfect Stranger)
Speaker: “Zappa, act I: This is the story of a slovenly housewife and a door-to-door salesman, a scenario written by Frank Zappa, a very serious work, and

most of all very demanding.”
Peter Eötvös: “This would require rehearsing during two weeks, nothing else than this (piece). But, it is impossible. Here we play very well. But it’s not

the same perfection that I’ve heard from the groups of Zappa himself.”
FZ: “Surprise.”
Speaker: “The surprise was 25 years ago, this same repertoire played in world premiere, still in Paris. Zappa, the rocker, seduced Boulez, a discovery at the

time.”
Pierre Boulez: “It is very curious to see how both worlds interpenetrate each other, because one comes from a completely different horizon, where practicing

Speaker: “For Zappa, these two worlds were only one. Behind the guitar, or the stick, there was a composer.
Act II, this weekend: ‘The Black Page’, full of notes, a very complex piece that can nonetheless be whistled under the shower.”
(The Black Page)
Florent Jodelet: “It’s the melodic side that touches me the most… the way one can play a music that is, at first, often heard as kind of a notes machine gun.”

(Teen-Age Pr0st1tute?)
Speaker: “Act III: Humor and sex, the universe of the great man with the mustache.”
Walter Boudreau: “He’s always been giving the image of a sort of rocker taking dru9s. Zappa did not do dru9. The only dru9 he was having was cigarette and coffee. This is what killed him, actually. He was someone that, although looking like a biker, was a very serious composer.”
(Teen-Age Pr0st1tute)
Speaker: “Serious, funny, inventive. All these facets to be discovered this weekend at the House of Radio (France).”

You are reading Zappa-Weekend In the French Radio FR3 which was posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 12:00 am by Balint. This entry is filed under Frank Zappa, Music.
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